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16 Billion Reasons to Reform Smelter, Build CopperString: Katter
Tuesday, 16 Sep, 2025
The Mount Isa Copper Smelter remains hanging in the balance, with the Queensland government seeming to tacitly sit on the sidelines, the Member for Traeger and Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party, Robbie Katter has said. “It really worries me that all we are seeing and hearing is the Government in Queensland saying, ‘Glencore should […]
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Dametto Renews Calls for Pepper Spray Trial in Queensland
Friday, 12 Sep, 2025
On the 1st of September, the Northern Territory Government began a twelve-month trial allowing residents to legally purchase and carry oleoresin capsicum spray (commonly known as pepper spray) for self-defence. Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto, is continuing his calls for Queensland to follow suit, advocating to the LNP […]
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Castle Law Petition – One of Queensland’s Strongest Ever Calls for Change
Wednesday, 10 Sep, 2025
The Castle Law movement across the state continues to grow with the parliamentary petition sponsored by Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto, now smashing past 77,000 signatures, making it the fourth largest petition tabled in the Queensland Parliament. The biggest petition on record remains a 2009 objection to increased vehicle registration costs, which attracted 109,935 signatures. […]
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Dametto Praises Ingham Sugar City Rodeo Success
Tuesday, 9 Sep, 2025
Hinchinbrook MP and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader Nick Dametto has commended the Ingham Sugar City Rodeo Committee on delivering another successful event on Saturday, 2 September 2025. Mr Dametto, who rode in the Charity Bull Ride alongside former Cowboys player and current team manager Glenn Hall, said that the rodeo was very strongly […]
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Katter urges Government to redivert leftover 2019 cattle flood disaster funds to combat devastating locust plague
Monday, 8 Sep, 2025
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has today penned and delivered letters to the Minister for Agriculture, Julie Collins, the Minister for Local Government and Emergency Management, Kristy McBain, and the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, calling for urgent federal assistance to control the locust plague currently tearing through Queensland’s mid-west. Mr Katter said the outbreak is “decimating pastures […]
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Dametto Challenges Politically Motivated Electoral Boundary Changes
Thursday, 4 Sep, 2025
Hinchinbrook MP and KAP Deputy Leader Nick Dametto has raised serious concerns over major party submissions to the Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC), warning of potential impacts on several North Queensland seats. Submissions to the QRC propose changes that would affect a number of North Queensland electorates. The ALP submission implies an expansion of Townsville and […]
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